Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concludes Editor Rogers: "To one who recalls the long feminist battle over the right of a woman to 'lead her own life,' it is remarkable to find such an intelligent and lively group . . . embracing so nearly unanimously a modern version of the pre-feminist pattern...
...Labour Party, of which Weinberg was a member until he became president and had to abandon any party affiliation, now is the smallest of the three parties. It includes everything from Fair Deal Democrats to militant Progressives, like Weinberg himself. In pre-war days the party had several Communist members, but today there are none--at least openly. A neo-fascist bloc also is supposed to have flourished within the Conservative party prior to 1941, but all traces of that too have vanished
...Pre-Med Society will hold its first regular meeting this week. The Society has regular meetings of the kind, at which different members of the faculty speak. Subjects cover technical aspects of medicine an dopportunities for women in the field...
...pre-New Deal taproots of the Democratic Party lay in Appomattox and Castle Garden. Appomattox* was the Southern loathing of Republicanism which was bred in Reconstruction days. Castle Garden was New York City's famed immigration station through which passed the millions who were politically organized in the great Democratic city machines. Appomattox and Castle Garden helped the Democratic Party survive through the Republican decades between the Civil War and 1932. Now the big city machines are shot: Chicago's Jack Arvey could not even carry Cook County; the Tammany Tiger is a sick old alley cat; Boss...
Shorn Trees. The Sussex Ashburn-hams, described in the earlier Burke's as "a family of stupendous antiquity," dating back well before the Norman Conquest, were cut off in the new Burke's without a single pre-Norman ancestor. Sir Fleetwood Ashburnham, 83, present patriarch of the family, was unmoved. "My ancestors," he humphed, "had other things to do during the Conquest than keep their archives straight for Burke's. They were defending England...